From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-26 16:32:23
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From: "Aleksey Gurtovoy" <alexy_at_[hidden]>
> Explicit documentation of the problems a particular library has with
> particular compilers could be a first step. Regression tests are not a
> replacement for this, because often the library author(s) go a long way to
> workaround a lot of those issues. Next step would be to have a page that
> contains an index of these issues, categorized by compiler vendor. It
would
> already be something.
Better yet: we want disciplined addition of tests to the config system,
along with automatic generation of documentation about the capabilities of
each compiler.
-Dave